Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 3.3 for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User's Guide
- Introduction to Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
- Use case scenarios
- Common prerequisites
- Editing and exporting the BIOS configuration profile of a system
- Comparing and updating the firmware inventory
- Creating, editing, and saving a RAID profile of a system
- Deploying operating system on collection
- Exporting server profile to iDRAC vFlash card or network share
- Importing server profile from iDRAC vFlash card or network share
- Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs
- Working With NIC or CNA Profiles
- Working with Fibre Channel profiles
- Selecting Fibre Channel storage area network in boot sequence
- Using Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration
- Licensing for DLCI
- Dell Deployment ToolKit
- Dell Driver CAB files
- Configuring target systems
- Auto-discovery and handshake
- Applying Drivers from the task sequence
- Creating a task sequence
- Creating a Dell specific task sequence
- Creating a custom task sequence
- Editing a task sequence
- Configuring the task sequence steps to apply operating system image and driver package
- Applying the operating system image
- Adding Dell driver packages
- Deploying a task sequence
- Creating a task sequence media bootable ISO
- System Viewer utility
- Configuration utility
- Launching the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller console
- Task Viewer
- Additional tasks you can perform with Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration
- Configuring security
- Validating a Dell factory-issued Client Certificate on the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller for auto-discovery
- Pre-authorizing systems for auto-discovery
- Changing the administrative credentials used by Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Configuration Manager
- Using the Graphical User Interface
- Using the Array Builder
- Using the Configuration Utility
- Creating a Lifecycle Controller boot media
- Configuring hardware and deploying the operating system
- Deploying operating systems
- Hardware configuration and OS deployment workflow
- Updating firmware during OS deployment
- Configuring hardware during OS deployment
- Configuring RAID
- Applying a NIC or CNA profile on a collection
- Applying FC HBA profiles and FC SAN boot attributes on a collection
- Applying an integrated Dell Remote Access Controller profile on a collection
- Exporting the system profiles before and after hardware configuration
- Comparing and updating firmware inventory for systems in a collection
- Viewing the hardware inventory
- Verifying Communication with Lifecycle Controller
- Viewing and exporting Lifecycle Controller logs for a collection
- Modifying credentials on Lifecycle Controllers
- Platform restore for a collection
- Comparing NIC or CNA profiles against systems in a collection
- Using the Import Server Utility
- Using the System Viewer Utility
- Viewing and editing BIOS configuration
- Viewing and configuring RAID
- Configuring iDRAC profiles for a system
- Configuring NICs and CNAs for a system
- Configuring FC HBA cards for a system
- Comparing and updating firmware inventory
- Comparing hardware configuration profile
- Viewing Lifecycle Controller logs
- Viewing the hardware inventory for the system
- Platform restore for a system
- Comparing FC HBA profile against a target system
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Dell provisioning web services on IIS
- Dell auto-discovery network setup specification
- Troubleshooting the viewing and exporting of Lifecycle Controller logs
- Deploying the operating system on Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers using WinPE 3.0
- Issues and resolutions
- ESXi or RHEL deployment on Windows systems moves to ESXi or RHEL collection, but not removed from Windows Managed Collection
- Related documentation and resources
8. Click Save as profile to save the modified NIC profile.
Configuring adapters
About this task
To configure the adapters:
Steps
1. Select the adapter on the Network Adapter Configuration screen and click Configure.
The Adapter Configuration dialog box is displayed.
2. Select one of the following options:
• Configure adapter settings — to configure the settings.
• Copy settings from adapter — to copy the configuration settings from an adapter that is already configured.
3. Click Configure.
The Configure Adapter dialog box is displayed.
4. Select the port that you want to configure and click Configure.
5. Select one of the following options:
• Configure port settings — to configure the port settings. Proceed to the next step if you want to configure the port
settings manually.
• Copy settings from port — to copy the port settings from a port that is already configured. Proceed to step 7 if you are
copying the port settings.
6. You need to choose the personalities for each partition on the port, enter bandwidth and configure settings for each
personality. One port can have up to four partitions with one personality assigned to each partition.
Under Personalities and Settings, select the personality against each partition and set the minimum and maximum bandwidth.
You can select from one of the following options:
• NIC
• iSCSI
• FCoE
NOTE: You can select the personalities only for CNAs and not for NICs.
7. Click Port Settings to configure the NIC and iSCSI parameters. For more information, see Configuring NIC and iSCSI
Parameters.
8. Click OK to save the configurations.
Configuring NIC and iSCSI parameters
About this task
You can configure the NIC and iSCSI parameters from the Port Settings screen.
To configure the NIC and iSCSI parameters:
Steps
1. In the Port Settings screen, on the NIC tab, specify the following parameters:
• Select All — select to check all the options available for NIC.
• Boot protocol — select the protocol for booting the system. You can choose from PXE, iSCSI, or FCoE.
• Wake on LAN — select to switch on the system throughout your LAN. You can choose to enable or disable this option.
• Wake on LAN link speed — specify the Wake on LAN link speed from the drop-down list.
• VLAN mode — select to add your system to a VLAN if it is not located on the same network switch. You can choose to
enable or disable this option.
• Link speed — select the NIC link speed.
• Flow Control — select the data flow control.
• IP auto configuration — select to automatically configure the IP address for the system. You can choose to enable or
disable this option.
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